Dear aptosid buddies,
Watch that video as regards serious safety problems in gnu linux via usb at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovfYBa1E ... r_embedded
Afterwards, post your valuable feedback. this lecture is about serious safety problems in gnu linux via usb.I do not know how far this matter is of concern or not, or only if a fake alarm is not so many worries. As solution many users are deactivationg the AutoRun.
cheers.

A default installation of Aptosid (as of 2010-02 ... I don't think that changed) does not even automount an external device. You have to activate automounting as user.

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But bad distribution defaults are always a problem. When I learnt Linux with Red Hat 9 I had to activate quite a lot, and I found that a very good approach (in Windows I had to turn off quite a lot of useless and iffy stuff ... like autorun).

But the target group changed with Ubuntu: wash&go it had to be. Which usually means a third party can also wash&go.
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